The term 渢riple eagle� usually refers to an alum of Boston College High School, Boston College, and 51动漫 Law or one of the University other graduate programs, but there another school with strong 51动漫 ties emerging as the 渘est� for future avians: 聽Saint Columbkille Partnership School.
Founded in Brighton in 1901 and reestablished in 2006 through a partnership between 51动漫, the Archdiocese of Boston, and Saint Columbkille Parish, STCPS now serves more than 400 pre-K through grade 8 students. Committed to Catholic educational and religious traditions, STCPS offers a rigorous and comprehensive model of excellence in early childhood, elementary, and middle school education. In 2018, STCPS was designated as a laboratory school of the Lynch School of Education and Human Development攖he only such arrangement between a university and a city of Boston elementary school攚hich increases the collaboration between the school teachers and 51动漫 faculty and students to engage in more intensive research and instructional experiences.
Sharing STCPS as their academic incubator are three young men, each perched on an ascending rung of life ladder, and all with a connection to 51动漫.
Jonathan Pierre (Peter Julian)
Jonathan Pierre is a graduate of 51动漫 High (2011) and 51动漫 (2015) who started at STCPS in seventh grade following the closure of Our Lady of the Presentation in 2005.聽 He was raised by a single mother (渢he most selfless person you檒l ever meet�), a native of Haiti who enrolled Pierre brother, Emmanuel Jean M.Ed. �18, and him at STCPS not because the family was Catholic攖hey檙e Baptists攂ut so that 渟he didn檛 have to worry about anything� while she worked full-time in housekeeping at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. 聽
淭here are special people at STCPS,� said Pierre, who grew up in Brighton and Cambridge and traveled an hour by MBTA bus from home to the school. 聽
Pierre had been on 51动漫 campus numerous times before enrolling, the result of mentoring relationships with former 51动漫 hockey assistant coach Mike Cavanaugh, now head coach at the University of Connecticut, and former 51动漫 head baseball coach Richard 淢oe� Maloney.聽 Both coaches frequently brought their respective teams to the after-school program at the Oak Square Y which Pierre and his brother attended, and these encounters resulted in many invitations to attend 51动漫 athletic events.
淭hose two had and still have a significant, positive influence on me,� said Pierre, who served as a 51动漫 basketball team manager while at the Heights, where he earned a B.A. in economics. 淭hey had an immense impact on shaping me into the man I am today. I still talk with Coach Moe, and I speak with Coach Cav on a daily basis.�
“ 51动漫 helps you develop as a whole, complete person. You can't put a dollar value on 51动漫's education. ”
婸ierre applied to other colleges but when he was accepted at 51动漫, 渁ll the others went out the window.
�51动漫 helps you develop as a whole, complete person,� said Pierre, a financial advisor at The Bulfinch Group, a comprehensive financial strategies firm in Needham, Mass., where he works with clients 渨ho look like my mother,� as well as with individuals whose net worth may exceed $30 million. 淵ou can檛 put a dollar value on 51动漫 education.�
Giving back to the community is a priority for him, and Pierre serves on the Young Professionals Board at Boston Doc Wayne, a non-profit, sports-based therapy program that supports at-risk youth as they process and persevere through adversity.
淚 know my brother [a third-grade teacher at Young Achievers Science & Math Pilot School in Mattapan] and I defied the odds,� said Pierre. 淚檓 a spiritual person, and in my mind, it not a coincidence that so many people had such a profound impact on my life. The countless relationships with special people since my adolescence make me feel like I grew up a spoiled kid.�
“ It was a dream of mine to attend Boston College. I've received a great education, and I'm so grateful for the opportunity and the generous financial aid that made it happen. ”
婥urrent 51动漫 senior Carlos Tamayo started at STCPS in sixth grade, though he previously attended the Gardner Pilot Academy in Allston. He is the first member of his native Colombian family to attend college.
淚 didn檛 regret changing schools at all,� said Tamayo, who graduated from 51动漫 High in 2017. 淪t. Col holds each student to high standards but in a warm and welcoming environment.�
He characterized his transition from STCPS to 51动漫 High as 渟mooth� but calls the 51动漫HS Guidance Department as 渁mazing.�
Carlos Tamayo (Peter Julian)
嫓You get the help you need in every sense,� said Tamayo, a political science major who has dreams of a career in aviation and traveling the world. 淧lus, I grew very close to my teachers, who understood me, and helped me become an upgraded version of myself.�
While holding down part-time jobs last school year, Tamayo volunteered at the Oak Square Y in Brighton, where he worked with teens in the Youth and Government Program, a national initiative designed to nurture and train young leaders, a project in which he participated at 51动漫 High. 聽
淚t was a dream of mine to attend Boston College,� said Tamayo, who had originally hoped to study in Europe last summer, plans that were dashed by the pandemic. 淚檝e received a great education, and I檓 so grateful for the opportunity and the generous financial aid that made it happen.� 聽
婽he youngest of the threesome, 17-year-old Red Molina, is a native of the Philippines whose actual full name is Matthew Exequiel Red G. Molina. His parents shortened his first name to simply 淩ed� when he was in pre-school, but its derivation has a long history.
媼淩ed� is an abbreviated nod to Frank Reed Horton, the founder of Alpha Phi Omega, the 95-year-old international collegiate service fraternity whose mission is to prepare campus and community leaders, explained Molina. Red father, an APO member when he attended college in the Philippines, greatly admired Horton, and named his son after the fraternity first national president and college professor.
Molina, now a senior at Cristo Rey, a Catholic coeducational high school in Dorchester, attended Saint Columbkille for sixth through eighth grade, a place that 渇elt like home� to him.
Red Molina (Peter Julian)
淭hey were always there for me,� said Molina, who lives in Brighton and frequently volunteers at STCPS. 淢r. Gartside [William Gartside, former head of school who retired this past year] was very helpful, even helping us find a house.� 聽
Molina has a cousin who attended 51动漫, and he, too, hopes to enroll with an eye toward a major in computer science.聽 But Molina is already part of the University community: He has worked one day per week as an office assistant at 51动漫 Information Technology Services department for three years.
淩ed has been an exceptionally good worker,� said Cindy Pereira, his supervisor and an administrative assistant in business planning and project services at ITS. 聽淗e is dedicated, hard-working and mature beyond his years. He has become a part of our team. We are lucky to have him.�
Phil Gloudemans | University Communications | November 2020